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27. Natural Reality / A. Classical Physics / 1. Mechanics / a. Explaining movement
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It is feeble-minded to look for explanations of everything being at rest [Aristotle on Parmenides]
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27. Natural Reality / C. Space / 1. Void
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The void can't exist, and without the void there can't be movement or separation [Parmenides, by Aristotle]
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There is no void in the cosmos, but indefinite void outside it [Zeno of Citium, by Ps-Plutarch]
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27. Natural Reality / D. Time / 3. Parts of Time / a. Beginning of time
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What could have triggered the beginning [of time and being]? [Parmenides]
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27. Natural Reality / E. Cosmology / 1. Cosmology
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He was the first person to say the earth is spherical [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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He was the first to discover the identity of the Morning and Evening Stars [Parmenides, by Diog. Laertius]
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Since the cosmos produces what is alive and rational, it too must be alive and rational [Zeno of Citium]
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Things are more perfect if they have reason; nothing is more perfect than the universe, so it must have reason [Zeno of Citium]
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